 The county councils of Bălți, Soroca and Orhei were the earliest to ask for the ""holy, redeeming, much desired and eternal union with the mother country Romania""

On , "Sfatul Țării" voted on Bessarabia's union with Romania.Support for the union was mixed.The vote did not break down along clear ethnic lines, but with Romanian troops already in Chișinau, Romanian planes circling above the meeting hall, and the Romanian prime minister waiting in the foyer, many minority deputies chose simply not to vote.